Two further charges have been laid against disgraced former union boss
Michael Williamson
, including a second money laundering charge of $600,000.

The former head of the embattled Health Services Union, Mr Williamson is now facing two money laundering charges totalling $1 million, and 48 other charges including fraud.

On Tuesday, Mr Williamson was charged on two new counts. The first was cheating and defrauding the union by facilitating fraudulent payments to a company called Access Focus. The money laundering charge relates to the same company.

Access Focus is a company associated with Alf Downing, who was described in a union-commissioned report by lawyer
Ian Temby
and accountant Dennis Robertson as a “Mr Fix-it" for the union. He has close ties to the HSU’s procurement officer, Cheryl McMillan.

According to the Temby report, the union paid Access Focus $4.5 million for union memorabilia between October 2007 and September 2011.